Dyeing apparatus.



No. 832,472. PATENTED OCT. 2, 1906.

G. A. .FRIEQRIGHS. DYEING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 23, 1906.

whine 000a b 22% G; die? UNITED STATES PA TENT oFFIoE.

GUSTAVE A. FRIEDRIGHS, OF WOONSOOKET, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE -HALF TO CHARLES A. PROULX, OF WOONSOUKET, RHODE ISLAND.

DYEING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented Oct. 2, 19.06.

Application filed February 28, 1906. Serial No. 302,585-

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GUSTAVE A. FRIED- RICHS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Woonsocket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dyeing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to apparatus for use in the ractice of dyeing; and it has for one of its jects to provide an extractor throu h the medium of which dyed material may e expeditiously and thoroughly dried.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus susceptible of being used alternate y as an extractor and as an apparatus for facilitating the dyeing of material.

Other objects of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of so much of the apparatus as is necessary to illustrate the present and preferred embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken in a plane immediately below the spider on the spindle looking upwardly and showing the relative arrangement of the said spider and the base of the basket for holding the material to be dried or dyed.

Similar letters designate corresponding 'parts in both views of the drawings, referring to. which- A is the bottom of a dye tub or vat, and B is a conduit adapted to be connected with a source of hot-air supply or else with a source of dye-liquor supply, as presentlyw ointed out in detail, and havingan upwardl -reaching portion 1), which is of comparatively large diameter, so as to assure the supply of an adequate volume of hot air or dye liquor to the basket, and is disposed in an opening 0 in the bottom A, as shown in Fig. 1. In its inner side the said upwardly-reaching portion of the conduit B is provided with aa ledge or shoulder d, and at its lower end it is equipped with a stuffing-bore for a purpose which will presently appear.

C is a s indle stepped at its lower end in a.

suitable earing f and extending upwardly through the stuffing-box e and the upwardly reaching, ortion b of the conduit B and having a spi or g at an intermediate point of its length and also having an u per threaded end it and a shoulderk imme iately below said threaded end.

D is a band-pulley keyed or otherwise fixed on the spindle C and located below the stuffing-box e.

E is the basket for holding the material to be dried or dyed, F a nut for holding the said basket down in proper working position, and G a cover for the basket. The said basket E is made up of an annular base 1, dis-. posed slightly above the tub-bottom A and aving a de ending annular flange m, in the lower end 0 which are recesses n, positioned to receive the arms of the spider g, Fig. 2, a foraminated tube 19, fixed to and rising from the base Z and open at its lower and upper 7 ends, an u per ring q, and a reticulated side wall 1', pre erably of fine-wire netting, interposed between .and permanently connected to the base I and the ring g.

. The nut F is threaded to receive the upper threaded end h of the spindle C and is arranged to bear on the shoulder k of the spinnated tube p and is closed at its upper end, and

a flange u, which surrounds the lower end of the tubular portion and is of a diameter to snugly occupy the basket E, as shown at the top of Fig. 1. In virtue of this it is apparent that the cover G may be adjusted vertically on the tube p and in the basket E, so as to ada t the cover to the quantity of material in t e basket. It is also apparent that as the cover is moved downward to carry its flange it against the material in the basket its tubular portion t, sliding over the tubep,

will serve as a stop to the hot air or dye hq.-

nor, as the case may be, and compel the same to (pass through the material instead of' up an out of the tube 1) at a point above the material, as it would do were no cdver proyided. This assured passage of the hot air or dye liquor through the material instead of above thesame materially accelerates the drying of the material when the a paratus is used as an extractor and faciiitates the thorough dyeing of the material when the ap aratus is used as a dyeing apparatus.

- y virtuexof the basket E bein arranged and held between the nut F and t e spider g on spindle C it will be observed that when the spindle is rotated the basket E will also be rotated, and it also be observed that when'the'basket'E is rotated at a high rate of speed and an adequate quantity of hot air is supplied to the-conduit B'drying of the material in the basket will be quickly and thoroughly effected.

my apparatus may be employed 'the-same is simple and inexpensive in construction and embodies no delicate parts such as are liable to get out or order after a short period of use.

31:. have entered into adetailed-description of theconstrue'tionanfl relativearrangement of theparts embraced in the "present and'pre- 'fer'red' embodiment of my invention with a over the nut view of imparting a definite understanding of the said embodiment. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to the said specific construction and relative arrangement of parts, as such changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of my claimeddnvention.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

In an apparatus for the purpose described,

the combination of a tub or vat having an opening in its bottom, a conduit connected with said opening, a spindle extending through the conduit and "into-the tub or vat and having a spider fixed thereon and located in the conduit, a basket having a foraminated tube receiving the spindle and a base resting against and engaging the spider of the spindie and also having an open-Work side, a nut mounted on the spindle and resting against the end of the foraminated tube of the basket, and a movable cover which is exactly contained in the basket and comprises a tubular portion closed at its outer end and resting and the 'foram'inated tube of the basket, and'a flange surrounding the tubular portion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my *hand in presence of two subscribing wit- -GUSTAVE A. FRI-EDRIOHS.

'Witnesses:

'Gno. W. SPAULDING,

EDGAR 'L. SPA-ULDING.

nesses. 

